Lavabit founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'

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48. I'm as boring as you are?! That cuts.

WADR, data collection, analysis tools, and hardware are silly complex compared to the 1960s. You say that nobody's interested in anything you communicate, but I would beg to differ. Current experience with databases and encryption leads me to believe that everything is collected, everything is prioritized automatically. Given the capabilities, there's no reason not to.

You post on DU, you're supportive of Ed Snowden? You're prioritized at a higher level than a day-job dude who struggles with Outlook. You go to extraordinary lengths to encrypt communications end to end? Use TOR networks/browser? You're a few big notches up on that scale. They want to know what you are so insistent on trying to hide.

I'll amend my earlier statement - obviously communicating with "known bad guys" is going to increase your priority level. But who determines what a "known bad guy" is? Does that include people who are supportive of Palestinian rights? Could that conceivably morph into "anyone who opposes the sitting President's political agenda"? "Anyone who opposes corporate influence in government"?

The possibilities for the government and others misusing exabytes of lower-priority data concerning protestors, dissidents, voting, coercion, blackmail, extortion, fraud, are truly endless. It's gotta stop.